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Temperatures are expected to drop to -2 in the city tonight and -7 in more rural areas. An amber severe weather warning for snow is in place until midnight tonight, when it is then set to be downgraded to yellow.

The Highways Agency has warned drivers to take care on roads this evening and early tomorrow morning.

Met Office forecasters based at the Highways Agency’s National Traffic Operations Centre say a second band of rain, sleet and snow is now affecting western parts of the country on higher routes, but snow is likely at lower levels as this moves east.

The Met Office is forecasting possible snowfall of 2 to 5 cm in parts of the East Midlands, with up to 15 cm possible on higher routes.

The snow is expected to clear by Tuesday morning, though temperatures will still be low and there may be isolated snow showers in the east of the country.

School Closures

- Birklands Primary & Nursery School is closed to all pupils because of heating problems.

- Eastlands Junior School will be closed this afternoon due to the heavy snow fall and concerns about staff and pupils getting home. They would be very grateful if parents could collect their children as soon as possible.

- Bracken Hill School will be closing at 1.00 pm today due to access difficulties caused by the heavy snow. School transport and parents have been informed. The school will remain closed tomorrow.

- Yeoman Park School is closing early today due to snow. Closed to pupils & staff tomorrow, will reopen on Wednesday.

- Redgate School is closing early today due to snow. Closed to pupils & staff tomorrow, will reopen on Wednesday.

- Garibaldi College has closed from 1pm today due to health & safety reasons. Will open as usual on Tuesday.

- Dukeries College has closed due to bad weather. Expected to open as normal tomorrow.

Comments

Dear All, As per my earlier post- I have checked with some of my former schoolmates....we dont recall that our school (Carlton le Willows grammar school as it was then) ever failed to open in the 7 years years we attended from 1959 to 1966. So how come 1 to 2 inches of snow (2- 5cms to the modern generation) brings everything to a halt these days? The knock on cost to the economy must far exceed the cost of some gritting and snow clearing. As far keeping pupils off the snowy playgrounds...whats wrong with a few slides, snowball fights? Had this 'cant do' attitude have been displayed at Dunkirk in WW2 then most of the soldiers would still be on the beaches. On a brighter note I saw an advert in This is Nottingham " How to retire at 55". I must follow this up urgently! As I am coming up to 65 this year and still working, this company's offer could be of enormous benefit to me !! Cheer. Piat

Listen to you whingeing lot
Who think you have it bad!
Hark , I'll tell you how it was
When I were just a lad.
At first we had no weather at all
On account of our penniless state,
Till Elsie, the youngest, found a job
As a gas mantle fitter's mate.
Even then it was atrocious.
We dare not light the fire
'Twould tell the landlord we'd got cash.
He'd put the rent up higher.
In bitter chill, conversation was
The hardest thing to handle.
You spoke to each other face to face
Across a lighted candle.
Otherwise, the words you spoke,
Whether to grieve or cheer them,
Froze solidly upon the lips
Before anyone could hear them.
I remember one especially cold night,
The kind we used to dread,
When I awoke to find what looked
Like a glass sphere, in the bed.
It had a strange fluorescent glow
In yellow, brown and green
Quite unlike any object
That I had ever seen.
I held it towards the candle
To observe it whole and part.
It started spluttering in the heat
Giving me quite a start.
Then, quick as a flash, it disappeared
With a loud and rasping sound
Leaving behind an awful stench
Which filled the room around.
Now in my advancing years
When surveying a wintry scene
I wonder on my magic sphere
And what it could have been.
Rambling Sid

If you want to see some snow, come to Skegby and bring yer sledge! Its almost standstill here! Ive gritted me street so folk can get about but if we get another 1/4" of the stuff we might have trouble getting fresh bread in morning. :-)

It is scaremongering, and as usual a proportion of schools close with the mere mention of the word snow.
Certainly not heavy, and it has been dealt with very well across Notts, Derbys, and S. Yorks from what I have seen today.